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Outline of Art History - Modern ArtVisual Arts Movements - 1880-1970After Impressionism proved it only took a handful of artists to band together and create a lasting impact, Art got very busy proving this concept again and again. And again. (Who knew so much could happen in a mere 90 years?) Here are listed movements, schools, groups, colonies and other descriptive plural nouns from around the globe that got their respective starts during the years between 1880-1970, or the Early Modern and Contemporary eras as we have so classified them. Each has been sorted according to the decade in which it was formed. Tip: This is a seriously long list. Every available item is listed alphabetically within any given decade, but, still. Long! Use Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) and type in your search term to locate the movement, group or school you seek more quickly. 1880
Etruscan School - 1883-84 (The) Glasgow Boys - 1880-1900 (The) Heidelberg School - mid-1880s - mid-1890s Japonism - 1880-1895 Nabis - ca. 1888-1900 Neo-Impressionism - 1886-1906 Newlyn School - early 1880s-ca. 1900 Post-Impressionism - 1886-1905 Symbolism - 1880-early 1900s Synthetism - late 1880s-early 1890s Tonalism - 1880-1920 1890
Bande Noire (or "the Nubians") - 1890s Expressionism - 1890-1939 Fauvism - ca. 1898-ca. 1908 Glasgow Style - ca. 1890-ca. 1920 Nagybánya Colony - 1896-1930s Pintura de la luz - 1890s-early 20th Century Secession - 1890s-early 1900s Ten American Painters (or "The Ten") - 1898-1918 1900
Art Nouveau - 1905-1939 (The) Ashcan School - early 1900s-early 1920s Beautiful Indies - early 20th Century-ca. early 1930s Bloomsbury Group - 1904-late 1930s Blue Rose (or "Golubaya Roza") - 1904-1908 Cubism - 1908-1939 Cubo-Expressionism - 1909-1921 Die Brücke - 1905-1913 (The) Eight - 1907-early 1920s (The) Friday Club - 1905-1922 Futurism - 1909-1939 Hagenbund - 1900-1930 Luminism - 1904-early 1910s Scuola Labronica - ca. 1908-ca. 1950 Septem Group - 1909-ca. 1930 Young Estonia (or "Noor Eesti") - ca. 1902-1917 1910
Bauhaus - 1919-1933 Biomorphism - 1915-1940s Blaue Reiter (or "Blue Rider") - 1911-1914 Brabant Fauvism - ca. 1910-1923 Camden Town Group - 1911-1914 (Russian) Constructivism - 1914-early 1930s Cubo-Futurism - 1912-1915 Cumberland Market Group - 1914-1919 Dada - Dadaism - 1916-1923 Donkey's Tail (or "Oslinyy Khvost") - 1911-1915 École de Paris (or "School of Paris") - 1915-1935 Escuelas de Pintura al Aire Libre - ca. 1913-1932 Formism - 1917-1922 Jack of Diamonds (or "Bubnovy Valet") - 1910-1917 Kecskemét Colony - 1911-ca. 1920 London Group - 1913-1930s Neo-primitivism - 1910-1914 November Group - 1917-1924 Orphism - ca. 1912-13 Pittura Metafisica - 1911-ca. 1930 Purism - 1918-1926 Puteaux Group - 1910s Rayism - 1912-15 Revolt Group - 1918-1920 Scottish Colorists - 1910-ca. 1930 Sōdosha (or "Grass and Earth Society") - ca. 1915-1922 Suprematism - 1915- mid-1920s Synchronism - 1913-ca. 1916 Union of Youth (or "Soyuz Molodyozhi") - 1910-1914 Vorticism - 1914-1920 1920
American Scene Painting - ca. 1920-early 1940s Art Deco - 1920s-1930s Artes / Neoartes - 1929-1935 (The) Blue Four (or "Blauen Vier") - 1924-1936 Circle of Artists (or "Krug Khudozhnikov") - 1926-1932 Constructivism - 1920s-Present (International) Constructivism - 1922-1939 de Stijl - 1920s-1932 (The) Degenerates / Entartete Kunst - 1920s- mid-1940s Devetsil - 1920-1931 Earth Group (or "Serbo-Croat Zemlja") - 1929-1935 Eesti Kunstnikkude Rūhm - 1923-ca. 1930 (The) Fellowship of St. Luke - 1925-1939 Group of Seven - 1920-1933 Group X - 1920 Halmstad Group (or "Halmstadgruppen") - 1929-early 1980s Harlem Renaissance - 1920-1930s Inkhuk - 1920-26 (The) Kapists - 1924-ca. late 1950s Magic Realism - 1920s-1940s Makovets - 1921-1926 Neue Sachlichkeit - 1920s-ca. 1930 Néo-Réalisme - 1920s-1930s Precisionism - 1920s-1940s Rhythm Group - 1922-1932 Riga Artists' Group - 1920-1940 Scuola Romana - 1927-1940 Surrealism - 1922-1939 Szentendre Colony - 1928-ca. 1940 Verism - 1920s-ca. 1930 Vkhutemas - 1920-1930 Workshop 17 - 1927-1965 1930 - WWII
Alaskan Movement - 1930s-Present Allianz - 1937-1950s Arantist School - 1930s-Present Art and Freedom - 1939- mid-1940s Concrete Art - 1930-ca. 1960 (The) Euston Road School - 1937- mid-1970s Färg och Form - 1932-ca. 1940 Forces Nouvelles - 1935-39 Group of Five - 1930s Hlebine School - ca. 1932-ca. early 1960s Neo-Romanticism - 1930s-1950s Persatuan Ahli Gambar - 1937-1942 Regionalism - 1930s Socialist Realism - ca. 1930-1950 Unit One - 1933-35 1945
Art brut - mid-1940s -Present Art informel (or Informalism, or Lyrical Abstraction) - mid-1940s -1950s Arte Concreto Invención - 1940s Arte Madí - 1940s (Les) Automatistes - 1946-1951 CoBrA - 1948-1951 Fronte Nuovo delle Arti - 1946-1952 Groupe Espace - 1949-1951 Homme-Témoin - 1948- mid-1950s Jeune Peinture Belge - 1945-48 Movimiento Madí - 1940s New Horizons (or "Ofakim Hadashim") - 1948-1960s (The) New York School - 1940s-1950s Perceptismo - 1940s Prisme d'Yeux - 1948-1950 Spazialismo (or "Spatialism") - ca. 1947- mid-1960s Tachism - late 1940s- mid-1950s Young Indonesian Artists - 1946 1950
Antipodean Group - 1959-1960 Arte generativo - 1959-Present Arte nucleare - 1950s Color Field Painting - 1950s-Present (The) Concretists - early 1950s Gruppe 53 - 1953-1959 Gruppo degli Otto Pittori Italiani - 1952-ca. 1960 Gutai - 1954-1972 Hard-Edge Painting - late 1950s-Present (The) Kitchen Sink School - 1950s Matter Painting - 1950s-Present Neo-Dada - 1950s Painters Eleven - 1953-58 (Les) Plasticiens - 1955-59 Pop Art - mid-1950s –Present Quadriga - 1952-54 Situationism - 1957-early 1970s Washington Color Painters - mid-1950s -Present Zero - 1958-1965 1960
Black Expressionism - 1960s-1970s Conceptual Art - 1960s–Present (The) Contemporary Artists Group - 1966 Continuità - 1961-ca. 1970 Fluxus - early 1960s-late 1970s Grupo Hondo - 1961-1964 Junk Art - 1960s-Present Land Art - late 1960s-early 1970s Mechanical Art - 1962-65 Minimalism - 1960s–Present Monoha - 1960s Neofiguración - second half 1960s Nouveau Réalisme - 1960-63 Op Art - 1964-Present Performance Art - 1960s–Present Photorealism - mid-1960s -Present Post-Minimalism - late 1960s-1970s Post-painterly Abstraction - 1964-Present Praxis - 1963-1972 Process Art - mid-1960s -1970s Psychedelic Art - early 1960s-early 1970s Saqqakhaneh - 1960s Solentiname Primitivist Painting - 1968-Present Support-Surface - 1967-1974 (The) Sydney 9 - 1961 Syn - 1965-1970 Woodland School - 1962-Present Timelines of Art HistoryAncient Art Medieval to Early Renaissance Art Renaissance to Early Modern Art Modern Art Contemporary Art |
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